Matthew J.X. Doyle

Matthew J.X. Doyle lives and works in Boston, MA, and can be reached at majo.xado@gmail.com.

Articles by Matthew J.X. Doyle:


黒い 火 (Black Fire)

in Issue 35 | Dynamite (Dec 2013)

tungsten carbide and steel shell - tears clouded over the viewfinder - « they may expect a rain of ruin from the air » - 300,000 degrees centigrade - the object’s shadow will be flash burned - a shadow is long when the sun is setting - resembles death without being death - photogenic

Facebook

in Issue 29 | Faces and Masks (Jun 2013)

I don’t use OKCupid - public and private, virtual semiocapital - the message of the piece is unambiguous - not dark enough to be Yves Klein’s blue - Coca-Cola, Jacques Derrida, NYC - a novel called Facebook

Sometimes a Cigarette Is Just a Cigarette, or, the Phenomenology of Natural American Spirit

in Issue 24 | Compulsion (Jan 2013)

people who don’t smoke - invulnerable like photographs - already-disposed-to-[X] - habit is the « primordial law » - instinctive (but, crucially, not involuntary) - « ὥσπερ φύσις ἤδη τὸ ἔθος » - « some affect or some pure pleasure » - the fascination of time’s absence - Brightleaf, White Burley, Criollo, Dokha, Perique - the auto-affective potential of Facebook - the master of my own death